German Wikipedia

German-language edition of Wikipedia German WikipediaScreenshot Main Page of the German Wikipedia in March 2023Website typeInternet encyclopedia projectAvailable inGermanOwnerWikimedia FoundationEditorGerman-language Wikipedia communityWebsitede.wikipedia.orgCommercialNoRegistrationOptionalUsers5.33 million (as of 7 September 2026)Launched16 March 2001; 25 years ago (2001-03-16)Content licenseCreative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL).Media licensing varies. The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia. Founded on 16 March 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia edition (after the English Wikipedia). It has 3,149,635 articles, making it the third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of 2024[update], behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated Cebuano Wikipedia. It has the second-largest number of edits and of active users behind the English Wikipedia. On 7 November 2011, the German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits. History Earl